Kirby Wilson leaving Steelers for Vikings

Summary of 7 articles · Updated Jan 26, 2014

Kirby Wilson is expected to become the running backs coach under head coach Mike Zimmer, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Wilson is now moving on from the Steelers. The Vikings have not yet announced the Wilson hiring. Wilson was under contract w… (more)ith the Steelers for one more year but they granted his request to leave. Wilson was in line to become Steelers offensive coordinator but was so badly burned in a house fire two days before a playoff loss to Denver in January 2012 that he was placed in a medically induced coma. He was batting .228 for the Single-A Asheville Tourists on June 27 93 games into his minor-league career when he quit baseball and enrolled at Wisconsin for a final season of college football.

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